Dorothy Slim Van Pelt (Anne Frank) is a 15 year old student from Greenwich making her theatrical debut, and is honored to be in this role in this Pulitzer Prize winning play, with this gifted, generous cast and crew in this marvelous and historic theater. Shalom.

Rhylie Lynch (Margot Frank) attends Schuylerville Central School. Rhylie has been in many show productions including The Wizard of Oz (Dorothy), Summer Camp (Bonnie), We Are Monsters (Jade), Press Start (John Elway), Disney's The Little Mermaid (Chef Louis), Disney's High School Musical 2 (Ensemble), Les Misérables (Ensemble). She has also participated in NYSMMA, Selective Chorus and All State Music Festival.

Courtnie Harrington (Edith Frank) is so excited to be back acting in Washington County! Courtnie is a Greenwich Central School alumni who recently completed training at a NYC conservatory. Most recently, Courtnie has been seen in NYC with Hudson Classical Theater in Sense and Sensibility (Charlotte Palmer/Hair Design), Antony and Cleopatra (Iras), and Pride and Prejudice (Lydia Bennett/Hair). Before that she was seen in the Capital District as Ariel in The Little Mermaid with Family Players of Northeastern NY as well as Ensemble/Hope Cladwell understudy in Urinetown and a featured dancer in The Producers at Schenectady Light Opera Company. You can find Courtnie on Instagram (@cjharrington55) or TikTok (@coscourt)!

Jared West (Otto Frank) is honored to be part of this special show, and thrilled that this is his debut at the Fort Salem Theater. He has been both onstage as a performer and behind the scenes as a music director or pianist. Onstage, he was most recently seen in A New Brain (Roger) at OhLook Theatre and A Man of No Importance (Sully O’Hara) at Brick Road Theatre. Other favorite roles are Ragtime (Younger Brother), Guys and Dolls (Sky Masterson) and Cabaret (Cliff). Jared has recently appeared behind the keys for Ebenezer Scrooge at Pocket Sandwich Theatre and White Christmas, AIDA and Gypsy at Firehouse Theatre. Love to Kyle.

Quinn Donaldson (Peter Van Daan) is a senior at Salem Central School whose recent stage credits include Seymour in Little Shop of Horrors and Tom in Schoolhouse Rock Live. Quinn is active in school sports and performs as a singer-songerwriter across the county, including performances at Unihog in Hoosick Falls, and the Forth of July Festival at the Salem Gazebo this summer. Immediately following The Diary of Anne Frank, Quinn will play Captain Von Trapp in Salem Central School’s December production of The Sound of Music.

Jocelyn Khoury (Mrs. Van Daan/Properties Designer) is a New York City transplant living in Wilton. She has appeared on stage and television. Roles include PSA for NYS Department of Health (Lead), PSA for NYS Department of Transportation (Lead), Book of Job (Dancer/Friend), Guardians of the Treasure (Sara), American Soup (Helen), Pinocchio (Columbina/Cat), Jesus Christ Superstar (Dancer/Ensemble). She is a wife, mother of three, and professional photographer.

Matt DeMarco (Mr. Van Daan) is pleased to be returning to Fort Salem after too long an absence. He most recently appeared in one of his favorite roles as Alan Stein in Our Time, also directed by David Braucher. Other favorite roles include Moon in The Real Inspector Hound, King Sextimus the Silent in Once Upon a Mattress, and the title role in Chasing Charles at Local Actors Guild of Saratoga. Matt is also a regular performer with Mystery Dinner Players of Albany. By day, Matt can be found working as an optician’s apprentice. Matt needs to acknowledge Kyle and Jared for making him feel safe and protected enough to return to the theater during these uncertain times, and David for always challenging and believing in him. Matt would like to thank the entire cast and crew for making this experience the best part of his day, and always politely laughing at his middle-drawer humor. He would also like to thank his friends, family, and work family for their support. Last, but never least, thank you to his partner, Anna, for her constant encouragement and teaching him to talk about himself in the third person.

Warren Schultz (Mr. Dussel) has appeared onstage locally as Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, The Cowboy in A Christmas Story, and Marley in the Christmas Carol Experience. In New York City, he has appeared in off-off -Broadway productions of Beyond the Horizon (James Mayo); 12 Angry Men (Juror #9); Cymbeline (Cymbeline); Titus Andronicus (Marcus Andronicus); As You Like It (Duke Frederick); Macbeth (the Bloody Corporal, the Doctor); Much Ado About Nothing (Leonato); The Importance of Being Earnest (Rev. Chausible); Over My Dead Booty (George); and A Christmas Carol (Christmas Present). He has also written and produced several off-off Broadway plays and was recently awarded a LARAC grant to write and produce the play For Farm and Family. He lives in Greenwich.

Kyra Fitzgerald (Miep Gies) is thrilled to join the Fort Salem Theater family! A Cambridge native, she has always loved performing and creating with others, and followed that passion to a degree in Music Education from the College of Saint Rose. Since graduating, she has performed at theatres across the region including Hubbard Hall, Schenectady Light Opera Company, Pittsfield Shakespeare in the Park, and Bennington Community Theatre. Roles include: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Puck), The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Rosa Bud), Into the Woods (Lucinda), Othello (Emilia), Peter and the Starcatcher (Molly Aster), The Crucible (Ann Putnam), Love's Labour's Lost (Holofernes), The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Olive), Romeo & Juliet (Lady Montague), a virtual reading of Twelfth Night (Olivia), and the opera L'elisir d'amore (Chorus). In addition to performing, Kyra directed the Cambridge Central School Drama Club for four years, conducted the Hubbard Hall Youth Chorale for three years, and organized many fundraiser cabarets, producing a dozen concerts and four full-length musicals. She teaches voice, piano, and music theory through Lighthouse Lyrical Studios.

Peter J. Carrolan (Mr. Kraler/Lighting Designer) has been part of the local theater scene for 42 years. The first play that Pete worked on at Fort Salem was the Pajama Game in 1979. He made many lifelong friends in that production, working backstage as a stagehand, moving sets. Over the years, Pete spent many summer nights working for Quentin Beaver (former owner of FST), both on and off stage. From 1995 to 2000, Pete worked as Tech Director, handling all technical issues for the numerous summer productions, while also appearing in a few. Pete has also been a part of many other local theater companies, including: Glens Falls Community Theater (retired Board of Directors Member); Schuylerville Community Theater (stage manager for Once on this Island, receiving a TANYS award); tech for Hubbard Hall for 7 seasons, under the direction of Kevin McGuire; and a summer with Lake George Dinner theater. Pete is taking Improv Lessons with MOPCO in Schenectady, and just finished the first section of classes at Second City Toronto. Pete has also directed for the Salem Foot Lighters and for Glens Falls Community Theater, where he directed Last Call at Chez Moret. Pete has worked on over 200 different productions. He is glad to be back at Fort Salem, telling stories to the new casts about the good old FST times, and some wonderful FST shows.

Anna Threet (Officer/Stage Manager) attended The University of Arkansas as an acting performance major. She has appeared in Little Women the Musical as a Hag/Ballroom dancer. She has performed in two ten-minute plays at the University of Arkansas titled After the Video and Out of Tune. She helped on deck crew for Top Dog, went on to Assistant Direct In the Book of and did a stage reading of We are all soldiers in a Strange World. She was last seen in Men on Boats as John Wesley Powell.

Sam Luke (Collaborator) returns to Fort Salem Theater after performing as Dan in Next to Normal earlier this season. Sam is a professional singer, songwriter and guitarist in nightlife venues across New York and Vermont for the past several years. On stage, he has starred in Newsies (Jack Kelly), Damn Yankees (Mr. Applegate), The Wizard of Oz (Tin Man), and High School musical (Troy Bolton). Sam has also performed as a stand-up comedian. He is a graduate of Cambridge High School and studied writing at SUNY Cortland.

David Braucher (Director) Since relocating to Greenwich, NY, David has directed throughout the Capital Region, including shows at Curtain Call Theater, Confetti Stage, Hubbard Hall, Greenwich Youth Center, Soul Rebel Performance Troupe [now Black Theatre Troupe of Upstate New York], and the premiere of Our Time by Ken Levine (head writer “MASH”, “Cheers”) at Saratoga Arts Center. In addition, he has done training for Skidmore College’s “Awkward Kids Talking” improv troupe, and has performed here at Fort Salem Theater, where he appeared as Dracula in Jay Kerr’s Dracula’s Grandmother and as Linus in You’re an Old Man, Charlie Brown. 

Prior to moving upstate, he lived, directed, performed and taught in both Atlanta and the NYC area. In Atlanta, on the strength of his Atlanta Circle of Drama Critics Best Actor-nominated performance as Jimmy Porter in Look Back in Anger, he joined Actors Equity and performed as Gunner in Misalliance with Dana Ivey (Hal Scott, director). Several other acting roles followed. While still performing, he began directing, and also taught acting and improvisation classes, from which he formed “Good Clean Fun – the Improvisation Company.” He went on to write and direct The Book of Esther and The Hermitage Show with the troupe, in addition to booking improv engagements at colleges, cabarets, schools and community groups. He also spent two years an actor-teacher-writer-director with the Academy Theater State Tour Team of Atlanta, an NEA-funded ensemble formed to tour to middle and high schools throughout Georgia, and created over twenty original theater pieces with his students.

In NYC, he taught, directed and performed at Process Studio Theater, as well as directing at Altered Stages and Good Clean Fun’s improv show at Storefront Blitz.  At TOSOS, he assisted writer-director Doric Wilson in the comedy hit The West Street Gang and later joined the cast. He also appeared in productions at 13th Street Theater, at the Actors Studio under the direction of iconic director Gene Frankel, Circle in the Square, and at The Kitchen.

He also spent three years directing the highly praised Teen-Life Theater touring company for Planned Parenthood of NJ in association with Dwight Morrow High School. Later, while teaching and directing at William Carlos Williams Center for the Arts and at Paul Sorvino’s American Stage company, David taught, wrote and directed for Allyn Sitjar’s Youth Theater of New Jersey. At the Williams Center, he trained and directed the Manhattan Improv Troupe which performs widely in the New York metropolitan area.

David owes much to his directing studies with Carlo Mazzone-Clementi, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Gene Frankel, Hal Scott, Claude Chagrin, Keith Johnstone and Paul Sills.

Sherry Nadzan Recinella (Costume Designer) has designed and constructed costumes for Home Made Theater, Theatre Company at Hubbard Hall, Lake George Dinner Theatre, Cohoes Music Hall, Curtain Call Theatre, Living Room Theatre Group, SUNY Adirondack, Roberts Wesleyan College, Wrightstage Productions, Collaborative Artists, ACT, Schenectady Light Opera, Hubbard Hall Opera Theatre, Saratoga's Children's Theatre, Laughing Giraffe Productions (NYC), Circle in the Square/PW (NYC), and others. Filmwork: NYU Productions/Ft. Apache, Charlie Samuels productions (short), Commercial work: Capital Rep/Proctors. Sherry is so happy to be working with Fort Salem Theater, Break a leg cast and crew!

Donna-Lynn Greene (Properties Designer) is a member of the FST Board of Directors who has thirty years experience in the public school system, where she specialized in special needs education on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Along with her husband, Donna-Lynn is also a small business owner with decades of business leadership in various industries, including: elderly care, vacation home rentals, house cleaning, deli services, and arcade/amusement parks. Theatrically, Donna-Lynn has designed and sourced stage properties and costumes for plays and musicals across New England since 1998.